Ford crossflow carb

[vixen]

I have the standard 32/36 DGV weber carb on my 1600 GT crossflow.
I have spoken to someone who told me that I can put a Weber 38 DGAS carb. on it.
According to him it is a straight bolt on job and would give more power.

I would like to know if this is a good thing to do to get some extra power.

Edited by vixen on Sunday 22 March 12:56

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vixen said:

I have the standard 32/36 DGV weber carb on my 1600 GT crossflow.
I have spoken to someone who told me that I can put a Weber 38 DGAS carb. on it.
According to him it is a straight bolt on job and would give more power.

I would like to know if this is a good thing to do to get some extra power.

Edited by vixen on Sunday 22 March 12:56

It would give more top end but make the car horrible to drive, bad starting, too rich, big flat spots etc etc.

Neil.

[vixen]

Thanks Neil.
I thought that you can re-jet it to match the x-flow?

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vixen said:

Thanks Neil.
I thought that you can re-jet it to match the x-flow?

you probably can but to be honest the gains from a 38 as opposed to a 32/36 will not be worth all the hassle, strip down of the carb and rolling road time. from memory it was still crap on low end after jetting.

if you are going to all that hassle I would go to twin 40's but none of the carb mods are worth doing until you have a better head and cam installed.

N.

[kabaman]

Is the 38 DGAS the non-progressive one?

My 1600M had 125BHP with a 28/36. Moving to twin 40s pushed it to 135BHP and made it awful to drive.

Eventually I went back.

I wouldn't get too hung up on huge carbs for road use.

N

[krispy]

[quote=kabaman]Is the 38 DGAS the non-progressive one?

My 1600M had 125BHP with a 28/36. Moving to twin 40s pushed it to 135BHP and made it awful to drive.

Eventually I went back.

I wouldn't get too hung up on huge carbs for road use.

N[/]

How exactly was it awful to drive? My 1600M is fitted twin 40s, pushes out about 145bhp and is an absolute hoot to drive....

[kabaman]

Maybe it's a sign of my age - I had many Anglia 105Es with pre-crossflows, crossflows and a Louts twin-cam and a Vixen and a 1600M, both with various xflow versions when I was much younger. Eventually the extra 10bhp at the top for the sake of the rest of the rev range just lost it's fun.

If you don't mind screaming around all the time then you can live with twin 40s. I just remember the 38DGAS as losing me low down torque as the speed through the two open venturis is slow at low speeds but it being better at the top end than the single carb.

I'm trying to think of the chap's name - I think it was Pete Baldwin who was (and still may be) quite a famous whizz with xflows who tuned up my 1600M on the rolling road convincing me to go for a 28/36 as the best compromise bewteen power and driveability - and having gone back to the 28/36 I never felt the need for the bigger carb(s) again.